Faculty News & Updates, Fall 2019
Heads, directors, and chairpersons of Black Studies programs in the Southeastern Conference held their third annual meeting at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, May 18-19, 2018.
Hosted by Valinda Littlefield, professor of history and director of African American Studies at USC, representatives from the Universities of Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Auburn attended. Items on the agenda included growth from program to department, faculty hiring, tenure, student recruitment, diversity office, establishing alliances among programs, and study abroad.
Professor Bertin Louis presented at the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), Black Internationalism—Then and Now, March 22-23, 2019. The fourth annual conference took place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Africana Studies Executive Committee
- Dawn Duke [email protected] Chair, Africana Studies, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
- Katherine Chiles [email protected], Vice Chair, Africana Studies, Associate Professor, English
- Amadou Sall [email protected], Vice Chair, Africana Studies and Lecturer
Africana Studies Core Faculty
- Robert Bland, [email protected], Africana Studies, History
- Shaneda Destine, [email protected], Africana Studies, Sociology
- Melissa Hargrove, [email protected], Africana Studies
- Darrell Kefentse, [email protected], Africana Studies
- Jakia Marie, [email protected], Africana Studies
- Gichingiri Ndigirigi, [email protected], Africana Studies, English
- Amadou Sall [email protected], Africana Studies
Africana Studies Advisory Board Members
- Derek Alderman, [email protected], UT Department of Geography
- Katherine Chiles, [email protected], UT Department of English
- Chonika Coleman-King, [email protected], UT Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education
- Mark Dean, [email protected], UT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Rosalind Hackett, [email protected], UT Department of Religious Studies
- Barbara Heath, [email protected], UT Department of Anthropology
- Tricia Hepner, [email protected], UT Department of Anthropology
- Carolyn Hodges, [email protected]
- Corey Hodge, [email protected]
- Doug Minter, [email protected]
- Althea Murphy-Price, [email protected], UT School of Art, Printmaking
- Marianne Wanamaker, [email protected], UT Department of Economics
- Courtney Wright, [email protected], UT Department of Communication Studies